Composers as Symbols: The anti-parallels of Pancho Vladigerov and Fernando Lopes-Graça
Composers as Symbols: The anti-parallels of Pancho Vladigerov and Fernando Lopes-Graça

Summary/Abstract: This article compares the trajectories of the near-contemporaries Pancho Vladigerov and Fernando Lopes-Graça as symbolic representatives of their countries (respectively Bulgaria and Portugal), their relationships with the political regimes under which they lived, and the importance their attitudes and outputs had in public and political perception of their work. It also discussed the importance of the folk traditions of their respective countries in their work and the way in which they negotiated their relationship with these traditions in the light of the new political orders which came to dictate cultural policy in Bulgaria and Portugal.

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